I posted the Boston Review story Why I Was Maced at the Wall Street Protests by Jeanne Mansfield to my Facebook wall, and it faithfully appeared ("via Links") on my wall. When my friends saw the update, however, they did not get the link. So I posted it again, and the same thing happened. And I posted the URL in a comment, and the comment disappeared. So then I posted the URL with spaces in it in another comment, and the comment did not disappear. Facebook is deliberately filtering comments containing the URL for the story. This is hardly conclusive evidence, of course. They could just be massively incompetent. Sorry, not buying it any more, not since they started releasing their code.

If you want to contact me without spamming article discussions (i.e. if you're new here), just reply to this post.

I am never going to allow you to run scripts on my computer from your various domains. If you weren't incompetent you would come up with a way to show me the ads anyway. They're called text ads. I don't need your content. I hope you die in a fire. I would never even notice you and your sophomoric stories if my friends didn't keep posting them to failbook. Please explode. Thank you.

You are incompetent douchebags. If your registration form didn't repeatedly submit itself to an invalid URL I might consider trying your game. Idiots.

Why have we been getting all these 503 errors for days? Pretty tired of reloading each page four or five times.

Still think it's hilarious that only slashdot editors may tag stories "slashdot". THOU SHALT NOT DISCUSS SLASHDOT ON SLASHDOT. srsly?

Really, Microsoft? You can't remove Windows Live Essentials from Vista for me before updating it? For that matter, you can't manage an upgrade-in-place? Seriously?

the only pgp keyserver I can actually get a key from (http only) is keyserver.linux.it. is my ISP boning me? I tried connection logging (tomato) and there's no indication that I'm doing anything wrong.

Why do I have to right-click a tab to bookmark all tabs? Why is it not in the menu? And more to the point, why am I in the position where I have to find an excuse for this for my lady in the first place? UI FAIL

Names changed to protect the relatively innocent... This was in a discussion about a bug filed and ignored, on a thread on a social networking site.

"Ah, that's a shame! I'm sorry you had one bad experience. There are many people that work at apple and it is hard to know how one person may handle a bug versus another. You should still log bugs, even if they seem to go into a black hole. It really does help with the Quality of the product, and I'm 100% positive every bug is at least looked at and some action is taken on (even if it is to just keep it in a "bit bucket" of things to possibly fix). I have bugs assigned to me from NeXt in the late 1990's. Some of which I have recently fixed. My name is X. I work on Y. Log a bug on Z and it will come to my group."

Or, you know, you could just use some operating system with some kind of openness and accountability and file bugs that will be addressed. Every significant bug I have ever filed against any Ubuntu package has had some kind of activity, acknowledgement, and usually a fix (or marked as a duplicate, of course... and eventually, a fix.)

How many antique bugs known since the NeXTStep days are still in OSX, just getting forwarded through multiple revisions while Apple adds new features?

I share with you the FAA's vision of "Normal Aviation Activity". These trails were laid by large aircraft. My sinuses are going nuts today. I make no other claims.

I'm looking at you, Widelands. What makes you think that a crapload of tiny icons is going to be a good interface?

I just want to thank FreeCiv for having an interface that's actually better than the game it rips off, even though the AI blows ass.

http://us.test.giga-byte.com

their site has been down for days...

Unsatisfied with compiz on Maverick I tried the compiz packagers PPA to find out they're not very good at it; it broke compositing entirely. Decided to try natty on a flash drive since I have a fairly fast one (not so much for writes, but reads are typically better than 20MB/sec.) Right now I am running on my Gateway GT5475E (makes it easy to find specs) with nVidia 8600 (k8) and if it seems worth it I will also try on my Phenom II X3 720 with GT240. I installed from debootstrap so this is not a test of the installer. debootstrappin' and installing grub worked fine. Bootsplash did not, I got graphics corruption with DVI to HDMI. Installing nVidia driver now... GDM didn't start by default after installing ubuntu-desktop, which is puzzling.

While playing a classic strategy game this morning I became annoyed at the AI's cheating. On low levels it's a pushover; on higher levels it cheats to win. The Wikipedia on Cheating in Video Games says absolutely nothing about games which cheat. Is there somewhere a list of which strategy games have an AI that doesn't have to have advantages above and beyond those which come to computers inherently?

If I cannot use your site without enabling all scripts your site is not worth using. If you cannot figure out how to make your site degrade gracefully then you are an asshole who should stop trying. Thanks.